Harlem Children's Zone

impact, knowledge of the situation, media influence they have among the Harlem community and City College scholars. Padmore John is the chair of Community Board 9 in Manhattan, which would be an essential person to have because of the outreach he has on the West Harlem community. Paul Jackson is the publisher of the Harlem Times newspaper. Jackson’s position as a publisher of a newspaper that has a targeted audience of Harlem residents can be influential and bring awareness of the issue to the…

“The invisible- the unseen or spiritual world.” People tend to relate the word “invisibility” with things such as: invisible cloaks, superheros, monsters, etc. Invisibility is often viewed only as a physical characteristic. However, the word “invisible” takes on many spiritual and literary meanings in Emerson’s novel. Invisible Man is the story of a young, black man struggling to survive and succeed in a racist society that refuses to see him as a human being. Invisible Man follows the…

introduction I realized it was about Harlem, which is located only a couple stops from home. Then I wondered what kind of cultural events have happened in Harlem, instantly I thought of the word diversity. In New York, there are many people that come from different backgrounds, they come to comfort themselves with what they believe. The question shouldn’t be what how many cultures are there? The question is how is it that living in a place so diverse such a Harlem; does not discomfort others…

Malcolm X had a complicated and difficult early life. Later in his life known as Malcolm X, Malcolm Little was born on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. He was the fourth out of eight children of Earl and Louis Norton Little. Before Malcolm was born his father had 3 children from a previous marriage as well as 3 children with Malcolm's mother. When Malcolm was born, his mother was a homemaker and his father was a Baptist minister and a supporter of the Black National leader, Marcus Garvey.…

that certain organisms posed. Periwinkles dominated the region increasing interspecific competition within the microhabitat. Since the site was studied during high tide and was barely submerged, it indicated that perhaps the area was in the subtidal zone. Due to the barnacles’ constant need of submersion, this…

steep, and the sinuosity was meandering/braided. The embeddedness of the rocks in the stream was about 25%. There was quite an abundant amount of vegetation, the dominant plant species were conifer trees, deciduous trees, and herbaceous. The riparian zone was very abundant, there was a lot of moss, long grass, and shrubs. Now for animal life in the water, we saw many animals including fish, water bugs, crayfish, turtles, and even a leach. For animal life around the water we saw salamanders,…

PE Coursework Strengths The sport I have chosen is football. One of my main strengths (components of fitness) in football is my speed. The definition of speed is the ability to move quickly across the ground or moving limbs rapidly to grab or throw. In football, you use your speed for e.g; When you’re attacking and you are dribbling past a defender, you can use bursts of speed to blow past him. This means I get closer to the goal and have a better chance of scoring for me and my team. Also,…

It was a nice sunny afternoon. We had gotten the news that the weather wasn’t going to be good. Our bus ride was more calm than usual as I didn’t hear much talking. I guess we were a little excited we were going to play on turf. I personally didn’t really care about the turf but I was concerned, about the fact, we were going to play older players. Coach gave us a heads up to play our hardest. Only five minutes into the ride and I was getting the nerves I always got. It felt like someone was…

“habitable” planets have been found. The two most discussed are called KOI 326.01 and Kepler 438b. There are quotes around the word habitable because habitable doesn't necessarily mean perfectly livable. Habitable means that it is in the Goldilocks Zone, and has sufficient gravity. A habitable planet could be very small, partly gaseous,…

Speedball is a game we played by combining, three sports soccer, football, and basketball. The game starts by putting the ball on the middle of the football field. Both teams have to be in position on their own side of the football field or with the position of soccer ball The ball has to be kicked forward to start the game. Speedball is played by the position of the ball whether the ball is on the ground or a ball is in the air. When the ball is on the ground, it can only be played like a…